With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.




Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.
Mike LeSuer

The Philadelphia-based artist discusses her band’s new album “Like a Stone” and her dedication to songwriting.

Michael Caridi’s post-LVL UP project has expanded to a four piece, as heard on the dual single out today via Double Double Whammy.

Roddy Bottum and Joey Holman list 16 tracks that match the queer affection of their new debut record.

The new comp demonstrates just how comfortable Deathbomb Arc’s vocalists are working over borderline-nonsense electronics courtesy of Hausu Mountain.

Cooper Handy’s new album “The Music Industry Is Poisonous” is out now.

The LA rapper and multi-instrumentalist’s new album is available on Bandcamp today via POW Recordings.

The Richmond rapper on his new album “For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her” and the pitfalls of genre.

Hannah D‘Amato answers some of our burning questions about the Oakland rockers’ recent self-titled debut (and milk).

You can listen to “Everything Pale Blue” in full ahead of its Friday release via Orindal Records.

The LA-based songwriter is sharing a video for the track from his newly released “Keep Trying” EP.

The month’s most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.

The artist shares how the expansive set of songs featuring Mac DeMarco, Cola Boyy, and more came together.

The New Orleans–based duo’s latest LP, “I Could Only See Night,” is out now.

It’s the second track Bauer’s released this year via his label Fortune Tellers.

With news of a second Trust Records pressing of their seminal 1980 debut album “Group Sex,” Morris tells us what he was jamming in the early ’80s.

It’s the second track released from the Beijing group’s forthcoming “Phantom Rhythm Remixed.”

It’s the latest single from the Chicago group’s self-titled final album.

The songwriter’s Epitaph debut “Sucker Supreme” arrives this Friday.

The industrial Toronto duo’s fifth album arrives this fall via Felte.

With his Captured Tracks debut “Some Days” out today, Jeremy Haywood-Smith shares a playlist of some of his favorite tracks by Winnipeg peers.